INACCURATE REPORT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 4

INACCURATE REPORT

SECONDARY EDUCATION ATTITUDE OF COMMITTEE (P.A.) TIMARU. July 17. The chairman of the consultative committee on post-primary education, Mr. W. Thomas, of Timaru, has issued the" following statement: "Information in a recently-published newspaper article relating to the forthcoming report of the committee is inaccurate and misleading. Actually, the committee is making very good progress with its assignment, but it has not reached finality in reference to any section of the report. “Full consideration is being given to opinions in memoranda forwarded by interested individuals and associations, to resolutions passed by different teachers’ conferences, and to the relevant subject matter in the British Spens report. Specialists, too, have given evidence and subcommittees are co-opting the services of outside educationalists in compiling syllabuses. A well-balanced committee is unrestricted in its deliberations, which neither the Minister of Education nor the Director of Education has attempted in any way to guide. “Naturally, the committee demands that it shall be given an opportunity of completing its work and publishing its report before criticism commences. Teachei’s are advised to take no notice of the recently-published garbled unofficial statement, but to wait for the publication of the official report."